Casket-handle



E. a, SARGENT.

CASKET HANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED HEB- 6, 1919.

1,374,327. Patented Apr. 12, 1921.

INVENTOR ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT QEFICE.

EDWARD It. SARGENT, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO SAEGENT 8; COMPANY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

CASKET-HANDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 12, 1921.

Application filed February 6, 1919. Serial No. 275,391.

To all 107mm it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD R. SARGENT, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of New Haven, State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Casket'I-Ian dles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the construction of a composite arm consisting of a main plate and a finishing or decorating plate secured thereto, and it has particular reference to the construction of a pivoted arm for casket handles or the like.

A number of the cheaper grades of casket handles now in use are constructed with pivoted arms consisting of a main plate of steel or similar metal for pivotally connecting the handle bar to a fixed socket and with a finishing plate for covering the main plate to give the same a massive and more pleasing appearance.

The primary object of my invention is to provide simple but satisfactory means for securing the so-called finishing plate in place upon the edge of the main plate.

To this and other ends, the invention consists in the novel features and combinations of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a casket handle embodying my invention, showing part of the handle bar.

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a rear view of the pivoted arm removed from its base or socket plate.

Fig. 4 is an edge View of the main plate of the pivoted arm, and

Fig. 5 is a sectional view taken on line 55 of Fig. 2 looking in the direction of the arrows.

In the embodiment of my invention illus: trated in the drawing, I have shown a base or socket plate 10, preferably made of sheet metal having rearwardly turned marginal portions to rest against the wall of the casket or box, and this plate is provided with the customary screw holes 11 at the lower part thereof, throu h which the attaching screws (not shown% are passed. At

the lower middle part of the plate 10, the.

same is provided with an opening for the passage of the pivoted arm 12. Inside of the socket plate 10 and adjacent this open lng, may be mounted an arcuate bridge piece 13, the opposite ends of which are preferably rigidly secured to the socket plate by means of rivets 1 1. The pivoted arm 12 consists preferably of a main plate 15 and of a finishing plate hereinafter described for covering the edge of the main plate. The upper end of the main plate is pivotally connected to the socket plate 10, in the particular device illustrated by means of the radially projecting lug 16, which passes through a slot formed in the bridge piece 13 and may be retained in engagement therewith by a pin 16 extending through the end of the lug 16 and positioned to engage the'rear face of the bridge piece 13, as shown in Fig. 2, or the main plate may be pivotally connected to the bridge plate by any other preferred means. The outer end of the main plate 15 preferably has a relatively large circular opening formed therethrough adapted to receive the handle bar 17, which bar is preferably reinforced by a wooden bar 17. The handle bar may be conveniently held against 1on gitudinal movement through the plate 15 by means of a screw 18 passing through a drill hole formed in the lug 19 projecting laterally from one face of the sheet metal arm 15 and screwed into the wooden bar 17.

The structure so far described is more clearly shown and described in my copending application, Serial No. 172,466, filed June 2, 1917, and need not be more specifi cally herein set forth, since it forms no part of this invention. This invention, as above stated, relates to means for securing the finishing plate 20 to the main plate 15 of the arm 12, and the particular use of the arm 12 or the manner in which the same may be connected to a base or socket plate, such as 10, or have a handle bar 17 secured to the same, is immaterial, so far as my present invention is concerned.

The main plate 15 of the handle 12 is preferably constructed of sheet metal Sllfi ciently strong to withstand the strain that may be exerted upon the same by the hen dle bar 17 and in order to produce a pivoted arm which may be cheaply constructed, but at the same time will present a massive and pleasing appearance, the plate 15 has its upper edge covered by a finishing plate 20.v The main plate 15 has provided at each plate upon an edge of the main plate consist in forming a longitudinal slot in each end of the finishing plate 20, as designated by the numeral 22 in Figs. 3 and A pair of tongues 23 is thus formed at each end of the plate 20, which may be bent inwardly to straddle the edge of the main late 15, and

in order to firmly secure the finishing plate 20 in position upon the main plate, one of the tongues 28 may be bent around the lug in ri lc eno'a e l J u the (a as 21 l men *1 a 1 shown more particularly in Fig. 2. The arrangement herein described, by which the tongues 23 are formed to straddle the opposite ends of the main plate l5, tends to Q tain the finishing plate in place upon the v edge of the main plate 15, but in order to securely fasten the plate 20 in this position it is desirable to bend a tongue at each end of the-finishing plate into clamping; engage ment with the lug 21, as above pointed out,

From the above descriptiom when read in connection With the drawing, it will be apparent that I have provided a very simple and inexpensive, but satisfactory means for securing a finishing or decorating plate upon the edge of its main plate.

What I claim is:

1. A composite arm for casket handles or the like, comprising a main plate, a finishing plate embracing the edge of said main plate to cover the same and means for securing said finishing plate in place upon said'main plate, comprising laterally projecting lugs upon one of said plates, and tongues upon. the other plate hentintoemhraci" engagement with said. lugs."

9 fomposi arm for casket handles or co; comp ng a main plate, afinishplate covering and embracing" the edge id main plat means for securing said plate in I vce upon said main pl. ies upon the Gill'lS of said ate, and cooperating h s upon 11G plate, extending trans sely of the plane of said plate and posit oned to said tongues bent into locking on; ment therewith! A. casket handle arm comprising a-shect metal plate, a finishing'plate embracing the of sheet metal plate to cover the same means for securing one plate in place upon theotheiy comprising laterally bent lugs upon the first mentioned plate, hent out a plane of the and positioned ad- ;7 the other plate, and tongues upon said finishing plate bent into emeracing engagement with said lugsv A composite arm for casket handles or the like, comprising a main plate a finishte enQ sing the edge of said main and finishing plate in place upon said main plate, comprising lugs upon said main pla e;

ends of sa'id fi ishing'plate beingreturned to embrace said lugs; I 1

composite arm'ior casket handles or the like, comprising a 'main plate, a finishing plate mounted upon a lateral edge of said main plate to'cover the same, means for securing said finishingplate in place upon said main plate, comprising lugs upon said main plate at the opposite ends thereof and having; the end portions of said finishing plate bent into embracingengagement with said lugs; I V

to cover the same; means for securing In Witness whereof, I have hereunto my hand on the 3rd day of February, 1919.

EDXVARD R. SARGENT. 

